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CVE-2026-28562

Published: Feb 28, 2026

Modified: May 11, 2026

PUBLISHED

CVSS v3.1

8.2

HIGH

Description

wpForo 2.4.14 contains an unauthenticated SQL injection vulnerability in Topics::get_topics() where the ORDER BY clause relies on ineffective esc_sql() sanitization on unquoted identifiers. Attackers exploit the wpfob parameter with CASE WHEN payloads to perform blind boolean extraction of credentials from the WordPress database.

VendorProductVersions

gVectors Team

wpForo Forum

affected
2.4 - < 2.4.15
unaffected
2.4.15

Weaknesses (CWE)

CWE-89

CVSS v3.1 Details

CVSS v3.1 Vector

CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:L/A:N

Attack Vector

Network

Attack Complexity

Low

Privileges Required

None

User Interaction

None

Scope

Unchanged

Confidentiality

High

Integrity

Low

Availability

None

References

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